The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
RxASY has eight bachelor heirs to thrones,

GERMANY has eight bachelor heirs TO thrones,
the eldest IS years old; the youngest years.
TIE Salt Lake Ne,cs declares that the con
stitution of the United States was inspired of
God
Four OR FIVE MUSICIANS will shortly go on
visit to Japan from Austria to study Japanese
music.
THERE are about 25 900 Hebrews in California.
and they are among the most desirable citizens
in the State.
THE highest mountains in Arizona are said to
be near Prescott. They are 1900 feet above
the level of the sea.
ONE vineland IN. j. man has made 1000 gal
Ions of unfermented wine this season, and
another 1000 gallons
AT a California agricultural show two tons of
grapes form one exhibit, illustrating the culture
of the vine in one county.
THE vintage in California this season, should
the weather continue favorable, is expected to
prove the finest known foryears.
THE peanut harvest in Virginia IS estimated
at 100000 bushels, and nine peanut factories
clean and sort the nuts for market.
FATHER MCGOWAN, the pastor of the Catholic
church at New Gascony, Ark has spent forty
OF his 81 years in his present position.
THE Board of Regents of the Oregon State
University has increased the salary of the presi-
the other professors from 81 ,76O to $1,000.
AN eagle flying off with a sheep in Santa
Clara county, California, recently, was inter
| rupted by farmer The bird at once dropped
| its prey and attacked the man, who was roughly
| handled in the fight. He came out the victor,
however.
WILLIS SKIFT, of Union, Ore, has been miss
| ing about year. Two persons have been tried
for his murder and acquitted. 1t, is considered
almost certain that he was murdered, and pre-
| parations are being made to settle his estate,
although one man reports that he saw skill re
Gently working on o railroad in the southern
part of California.
The DOCTORS of Pattenburg, n. j., are much
puzzled over the case of Jonas Robinson, who
| seven years ago swallowed a peanut shell. The
boy vomited the shell sixteen months after
swallowing 1t An eruption appeared in his
side last June from which there has been
steady discharge of pus. The physicians admit
| that they cannot diagnose the allment.
GEN. SUMPT, Governor of the Invalides, wears
| artificial arms which, owing to their perfect
mechanism, admit of his making a series of
natural looking gestures. Both his hands are
gloved. The General distinguished himself in
Africa, in the Crimea, in Italy, and in the war
| of 1870. In consequence of his terrible wounds
Z at Sedan, his arms had to be amputated.
| The re-survey of Formosa discloses the fact
that much of the land is held in seigniores, or
/ HlanOrS Inc early CnIneSe peJUy SQudlJeFS Ddu
no titles for the land appropriated from the
SavageS, and as soon as it was cultivated the
powerful gentry applied for wholesale govern
ment grants, which thus placed them in a posi-
ton to treat the cultivators as tenantS-at-wlu.
FRENCH CORRAL, Nevada county, Cal, has its
sensation. A Chinese girl living at that place
desires to attend the public school, and there is
some kicking against it. The trustees con
| suited County Superintendent Tiffany on the
| subject, who has ordered that she be admitted
| to the school and accorded all the rights and
privileges that are enjoyed by the other pupils,
| the law so demanding.
THE death is announced in Upper Austria of
Frederick Ganglebauer, only brother of Cardi-
/ nal Ganglebauer Archbishop of Vienna and
| Primate of the empire. Frederick Ganglebauer
was but an ordinary peasant, and fell dead of
| an aneurism OF The heart while engaged in plow-
| ing his field. Cardinal Simon, the Primate of
! the Kingdom of Hungary, is the son of a village
| cobbler, and has his old mother residing with
| him in his splendid palace.
| WRITER in the Boston Journal says: IF
want TO tell woman's temper l watch her eye
lids. You can read man the same way, but
| not so readily. woman with fiery temper
| will move her eyelids with a snap and that snap
| betrays her. Another who is easy going ana
| hard to arouse moves her eyelids langudly
One with quick brain and temper furious
| when aroused, just winks steadily, but neither
quickly nor slowly, until engaged in interesting
| conversation"
| THE report of United States Consul General
| Bonham, at Calcutta, shows that the area de-
| voted to growing wheat in India during the
| year ending March 81 1885, was n, 900 acres
and that the total yield was 269 1000 bushels
| He states that the quality is inferior to that of
/ the product of the Pacific coast. The export of
| wheat showed an increase over the previous
year of 5,OOO0OO cwt., and fears that in the fu
| ture the United States will find India formid-
| able competitor.
AT the Smithsonian Institution experiments
are shortly to be commenced to determine if
solution of permanganate of potash is local
| antidote to the venom of ratJlesnakes Three
serpents, of the CrotdtuS ho1rtdus species, Sc
lected for the test, will be held by the neck and
| made to eject their venom in saucer, which
will then be injected, by means of hypodermc
syringe into pigeons, rabbits, etc, and the symp-
| toms carefully noted. The supposed antidote
| will then be administered by the same means
in all the stages of toxic symptoms and the re-
| suits recorded.
| In CARRYING OUT the extension of the Via
Geneva the foundations have been uncovered of
house belonging to distinguished Roman
| lady, Emitia Paulina Asiatica, sister-in-la law of
Scipio, who vanquished Hannibal, at Zama. In
eXcavating for the foundations of the new
Banca Nazionale fragments of large marble
calendar were dug up, on which were noted the
games to be celebrated in April in honor of
Ceres and Cybele on the Palatine. Near the
Porta Pinciana inscription has been found
indicating that temple to Silvanus had been
| Dult on tnat spot.
| THE Manitoban railroad trouble has ended for
the present, in a disappointing way to the peo-
pie of the Province The contractor of the Red
| River Valley road, Hugh Ryan. after waiting for
a long time for payment OF the estimates has
| thrown up his contract, and on Saturday gave
notice to all sub-contraciors to stop work II is
| reported that the statement of the Provincial
| Minister'S that the estimates were being paid out
of the Provincial Treasury as they came due
was false; that only $4,000 has been paid the
contractors, and that $150,000 is due Many of
the people believe that the Provincial authorities
have humbugged them.
GIRL ID years old, belonging to a spiritualist
family at Gilroy says the San Francisco En-
Gminer has startled the community by COM
| munications and penciled sketches of heads,
| supposed to be from life. These written mes
sageS and Hkenesses appear on her arm and
| often remain visible for an hour. The father of
the girl says they come and go on the girls bare
| arm evidently under the cuticle. and cannot be
washed away statement which has gained
currency, that the girl is in the habit of sewing
carbon tracing paper in her sleeve, is indignant
| ly denied by the family, and many regard her as
most remarkable medium.
MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS are anything
but novelty in the Fatherland and are pushed
to a point rarely seen in other countries.
love-lorn bachelor Of Frankfort recently adyer
tsed for "helpmate of agreeable exterior and
good education adding that money was only
a secondary consideration. He received no less
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